MUMBAI: The who's who of the entertainment industry in India has come together and launched a movement against the news channels maligning the image of the industry.

A civil suit is filed in the high court against all the media channels who slandered Bollywood without any proofs and defamed them. Mainly the houses that are under the radar are RepublicTV and Times Now.

Even the topmost journalists have been mentioned in the suit against them. The suit also asks media houses and social media platforms to refrain from publishing irresponsible, derogatory remarks against the film industry.

The suit has been filed by DSK Legal on behalf of the plaintiffs which includes four Bollywood industry associations and 34 leading Bollywood producers.

The suit also calls for action to make the Defendants abide by the provisions of the Programme Code under the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994, and to withdraw, recall and take down all the defamatory content published by them against Bollywood and that too without any concrete evidence.

In the past few weeks and months, the media as brought down the industry by calling them words like filth, druggies, scum, and expressions such as “it is Bollywood where the dirt needs to be cleaned.

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Almost all the well-known names in Bollywood are represented through the Plaintiffs, including:

The Producers Guild of India

The Cine & TV Artiste Association

The Film and TV Producers Council Screenwriters Association

Aamir Khan Productions Ad-Labs Films

 Ajay Devgn Flims Andolan Films

 Anil Kapoor Film and Communication Network

Arbaaz Khan Productions

 Ashutosh Gowariker Productions

BSK Network and Entertainment

Cape of Good Films Clean Slate Filmz

Dharma Productions

Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures

Excel Entertainment

Filmkraft Productions

Hope Production

 Kabir Khan Films

 Luv Films

 Macguffin Pictures

 Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment

One India Stories R.S. Entertainment

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures

 Red Chillies Entertainment

 Reliance Big Entertainment

Reel Life Productions

Rohit Shetty Pictures

Roy Kapur Productions

Salman Khan Ventures

Sohail Khan Productions

Sikhya Entertainment

Tiger Baby Digital

Vinod Chopra Films

 Vishal Bhardwaj Film

Yash Raj Films

Well, it is high time that Bollywood needed to speak up considering the backlash they have received from the media channels and netizens regarding the SSR case.

With this case, the war has begun between the Media channels and Bollywood.

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